Install rain barrels on invited Vine City homes above Proctor Creek.

Vine City and English Avenue flood from the bottom up, the neighborhood sits on the buried headwaters of Proctor Creek, and every hard rain overwhelms the old combined system. Rain barrels on downspouts hold back the first flush from each roof, slow the surge, and give gardens free water. Enough barrels on enough blocks is real distributed infrastructure.

Where

Host-invited homes near Sunset Ave NW, Vine City, Atlanta, GA 30314 · Open the map

Pay

$280 proposed

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Proof

Installed-barrel photo with sealed screen and overflow path

This is exactly what gets it approved. Nothing settles without it.

Level

intermediate

Open until

2026-10-18

Posted by

0x034F…6c89

The creator wallet. Its signature is what approves proof and settles the wage.

How this work is done

A documented method, so this packet comes out the same whoever does it.

Steps

1. Choose the downspout with the host and set a level paver base.
2. Cut the downspout to height and fit the diverter per the kit instructions.
3. Set the barrel, connect the diverter and overflow hose, and route overflow away from the foundation.
4. Check the lid screen is mosquito-tight.
5. Photograph the installed barrel and overflow path with GPS and date.

What counts as done

• Photos of the installed barrel and diverter, GPS and date
• Close-up of the mosquito-tight screen
• Overflow path photo

Proof is measured against these, not judged by taste.

The standard this serves

Green Stormwater Infrastructure. Green stormwater infrastructure is the city's way of handling rain the way a meadow does: rain gardens, planted swales, and permeable pavement that let a storm soak in instead of surging down a pipe. The EPA's inspection standard keeps these systems honest, because a neglected rain garden quietly stops working while still looking like a garden. Mastery is the inspector's eye: reading inlets, overflow, plants, and soil in a single practiced pass. This packet is one such inspection, one basin checked and one record filed, which is precisely how a thousand basins stay alive.